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Hear new Pixies track, “Chicken”

Pixies return with a new track, “Chicken“, which you can hear below. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE The track is taken from The Night The Zombies Came – their first new music since 2022’s Doggerel – which is released on October 25 via BMG. The Night The Zombies Came features new bass player Emma Richardson (Band Of Skulls) and has been produced by Tom Dalgety, who’s worked on the band’s since 2016’s Head Carrier. The tracklisting for The Night the Zombies Came is… Primrose You’re So Impatient Jane (The Night the Zombies Came) Chicken Hypnotised Johnny Good Man Motoroller I Hear You Mary Oyster Beds Mercy Me Ernest Evans Kings of the Prairie The Vegas Suite When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (reissue, 2009)

The place: New York City. The date: January 2001. In the financial district, the Twin Towers stand tall. Somewhere in town, a band of young hopefuls calling themselves The Strokes are preparing to release their debut EP “The Modern Age”. But tonight, your Uncut correspondent is at the Mercury Lounge in Manhattan, watching a bill of local underground up-and-comers. Later, the Moldy Peaches will reduce the crowd to hysterics with their wry hipster folk. But first up is a duo going by the name of Avey Tare and Panda Bear. The pair dart around the floor, triggering electronics, bashing away at percussion and singing in strange, otherworldly cries. It’s a captivating performance, teeming with ideas. But right now, at least, it feels way out of step with the zeitgeist: a glimpse of something strange going on way out at the margins. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE What a difference eight years makes. As 2009 dawns, Avey Tare and Panda Bear – real names Dave Portner and Noah Lennox – and their friend Brian Weitz, aka Geologist, are most talked-about band in indie rock. This is thanks to their eighth album… Read More →

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Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called

Every Wednesday afternoon, Jake Xerxes Fussell hosts a radio show with his pal Jefferson Currie II on WHUP FM, a community station in Hillsborough, North Carolina. They play songs from far and wide – a recent episode moved quite naturally from Bob Dylan’s “Hearts Of Fire” to Nigerian soul music to Swedish fiddle to June Tabor singing “Pork Pie Hat” – but they have a particular passion for songs of the American south, interpreted in the most expansive sense. Though they are both learned students of American folklore, they’re at pains to distance themselves from hidebound notions of authenticity and antiquity. “As much as we cherish our pre-war blues 78s and old-time fiddle tunes,” they insist, “we also love hip-hop, bounce, banda and norteña.” BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE The title of the show, Fall Line Radio, is taken from a geological term for those areas where piedmont highlands meets the coastal plains (Jefferson has a day job in conservation as riverkeeper of the Lumber River). Fall lines are marked by rapids and waterfalls, powering mills and hydro-electrics power plants. They traditionally mark the limits of upstream travel, and they’re… Read More →

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Watch the first trailer for the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown

A teaser trailer has been released for James Mangold‘s upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE The film stars Timothée Chalamet as Dylan – here’s some blurb about it. Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician BOB DYLAN’s (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. A Complete Unknown opens in the UK and Ireland in January 2025. Uncut readers will, of course, remember Todd Haynes‘ I’m Not There, which Uncut described as “an audaciously prismatic portrait of Dylan wholly as contrary, confrontational, playful, provocative, unpredictable, enigmatic, allusive and often just as downright funny as its subject.”

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John Mayall has died aged 90

John Mayall, the pioneering Blues musician, has died aged 90. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Mayall came to prominence in the ’60s with his band, the Bluesbreakers, which acted as a finishing school for the future stars of the British blues boom – including Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Mick Taylor. Advertisement A statement on Mayall’s Instagram page announced that the musician died on Monday at his home in California. “It is with heavy hearts that we bear the news that John Mayall passed away peacefully in his California home yesterday, July 22, 2024, surrounded by his loving family. Health issues that forced John to end his epic touring career have finally led to peace for one of this world’s greatest road warriors. John Mayall gave us ninety years of tireless efforts to educate, inspire and entertain.” Born in Macclesfield in 1933, he discovered jazz and blues through his father’s record collection. After spending three years in Korea for his National Service, Mayall studied at art college, working as a graphic designer before turning professional musician in 1963. As part of the emerging London blues scene,… Read More →

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Jack White – No Name

Even before he formed Third Man Records, Jack White had perfected the art of the guerilla record drop – he once hid a bunch of seven inches inside re-upholstered sofas. But he’ll have to go some way to top the release strategy for his surprise sixth album – his first new music since 2022’s Fear Of The Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive. An anonymous white label, No Name was given away free with any purchase at White’s Third Man stores on Friday while a very limited number of copies were also sent to customers at random in the mail. Its mysterious grooves contained 14 tracks of raw, fresh, fierce garage blues – seven on each side. There were no official song titles, no hint at the artist – but there was no doubt that this was the work of Jack White himself. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Although the opening song, a menacing “Killing Floor” style blues, includes the tongue-in-cheek line that “nothing is this world is free”, customers who got a copy of No Name were encouraged by Third Man to “rip it” and the album is now freely available on You Tube…. Read More →

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Watch the video for Brian Eno’s “Stiff”

To coincide with the release of the Official Soundtrack to Gary Hustwit’s generative film Eno, a new video has been released for the track “Stiff“, made from footage newly unearthed during the making of the documentary. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Watch the video below. “Stiff” was originally included on the Eno album My Squelchy Life, which was due for release in 1991, but never saw the light of day in 2015. The vinyl edition of the Official Soundtrack album comes as 2LP recycled black vinyl and 2LP pink & white vinyl (only available from Eno’s website), and a 73-minute long CD with an illustrated 16 page booklet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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Toumani Diabaté – Album By Album

As tribute to Toumani Diabaté, who has died aged 58 following a short illness, here’s our Album By Album interview with the Malian kora master from Uncut’s February 2011 issue [Take 165]. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Born into the griot bloodline of West African storytellers and poets, Toumani Diabaté is the 71st generation in his family to play the kora, the 21-string harp with which he creates a dazzling kaleidoscope of musical colours. The Malian is a man of many parts. A Goodwill ambassador for the UN and a bosom buddy of Damon Albarn, he has collaborated with everyone from Bjork to Herbie Hancock, and is as comfortable playing ATP as WOMAD. “There is too much misunderstanding between people, between nations and cultures,” he says. “We need to come together and play together.” Delving into the highlights of his remarkable career, it’s clear he puts his music where his mouth is. Advertisement TOUMANI DIABATÉ Kaira HANNIBAL, 1988. PRODUCED BY LUCY DURAN Advertisement Diabaté makes an immediate impression with his first album, a haunting collection of solo kora improvisations recorded in London in a couple of hours when he is… Read More →

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Exclusive! Inside a new collection of unreleased Arthur Lee songs: “The music covers his wide-ranging taste and adeptness…”

Exclusive! High Moon Records boss George Wallace on a tantalising new collection of unreleased Love songs GEORGE WALLACE: “This unprecedented collection of Arthur Lee/Love recordings were made during the last 15 years of his life – from 1990 until Arthur’s final studio recording, in the summer of 2005. In a Memphis hospital in 2006, after a long battle against leukaemia, Arthur gave his wife, Diane, two CDs he’d compiled and asked her if she would oversee the release of the songs after he was gone. Arthur Lee Is Love Just To Remind You is comprised of the songs that Arthur put on the CDs. “Sourced from Arthur’s trove of tapes, the music covers his wide-ranging taste and adeptness, from Forever Changes-style, haunting strings and brass-adorned productions, to Arthur at the piano, playing Ray Charles-inspired licks and singing with glorious, soulful abandon. Advertisement READ THE MAKING OF LOVE’S “SHE COMES IN COLORS” HERE “Baby Lemonade, who Arthur anointed as his ‘new Love’ in 1993, contribute their stellar musicianship to half of the album’s tracks. Earlier this year, in March, we booked the current band, led by Johnny Echols, into LA’s Sunset Sound, Studio A – the very same studio where Love… Read More →

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Hear Gillian Welch and David Rawlings new track, “Empty Trainload Of Sky”

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are releasing a new album, Woodland, on their own Acony Records label on August 23. You can hear “Empty Trainload Of Sky” from the album below. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Woodlandwas named for and recorded at Welch and Rawlings’ own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, TN. Of the album and studio and studio, Welch and Rawlings said, “Woodland is at the heart of everything we do, and has been for the last twenty some years. The past four years were spent almost entirely within its walls, bringing it back to life after the 2020 tornado and making this record. The music is (songs are) a swirl of contradictions, emptiness, fullness, joy, grief, destruction, permanence. Now.” The album is available to pre-order here. The tracklisting for Woodland is: Empty Trainload Of Sky What We Had Lawman The Bells And The Birds North Country Hashtag The Day The Mississippi Died Turf The Gambler Here Stands A Woman Howdy Howdy

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Suede / Manic Street Preachers – Alexandra Park, London, July 18

“I am a selection of dismantled almosts” reads the Anne Sexton quote emblazoned across screens erected in a glade beneath the imposing frontage of Alexandra Palace as Manic Street Preachers take the stage, exposing perhaps one of the unspoken stigmas of the co-headline tour. As much as they can be blockbuster money-spinners – Elton duelling pianos with Billy Joel; Jay-Z and Beyoncé cashing in on the world’s most famous marriage – they can also act as a means to muster joint fanbases for acts that only scraped the stadium league by themselves. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Nothing feels “almost” about the Manics and Suede’s joint tour, mind. Both of these iconic ’90s bands – swapping the headline spot and playing a tight 75 minutes apiece – are back in the ascendent. The Welsh rock insurrectionists bagged their first UK No 1 album since 1998 with 2021’s The Ultra Vivid Lament, while London’s suave indie sleaze originators are riding high on acclaim for 2022’s raw-edged Autofiction album. This joint tour, begun in North America in 2022 and revived for the UK this summer, is no Britpop cash-in charabanc – both… Read More →

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Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee

Retaining mystery in the digital age is a difficult thing. And even more difficult in this time of over-saturation is releasing a record through entirely unconventional means and having it make a dent, let alone a meaningful impact. On Diamond Jubilee – the seventh album from Patrick Flegel’s alter-ego drag artist persona – Cindy Lee manages to achieve both. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE This album is not available to buy on any physical format yet. Nor is it on Spotify, Bandcamp or Apple. It is available only to download (for free, with donations encouraged) via the web 1.0 hosting site Geocities or to stream, ad-free, via YouTube. There is no accompanying press or liner notes, no artist bio, no interviews; just a sprawling two-part, two-hour record that has dropped in from nowhere like a parachute from the sky containing precious cargo. Although rather than disappearing into the ether as it lands, ignored by the algorithms, playlists and radio stations who have no access to the tracks to promote it, the album has instead landed to fervent hype. Advertisement Although, remarkably, such buzz appears genuinely justified. Diamond Jubilee feels like… Read More →

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Tom Verlaine – Warm And Cool / Songs And Other Things / Around

By the time Tom Verlaine stepped into the studio to record his first instrumental album, Warm And Cool [1992], he’d pretty much burned out on the endless cycle of record-release-tour dynamics that goes with life on a major label. Having played the game long enough, Verlaine had taken stock, and was keen to redraw the parameters of both his artistic and his everyday life. He’d long entertained a desire to record an instrumental collection, and there did seem to be something particularly appropriate about one of the most idiosyncratic and individual of guitar players going the instrumental route. For anyone who’d listened to the ecstatic flight of Verlaine’s bird-like guitar over the preceding two decades, Warm And Cool was no surprise; it was simply good to hear Verlaine in this new setting, one that so neatly suited his aesthetic. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE There were other things going on, of course. Warm And Cool was released in the same year as Television’s third, ‘comeback’ album. This self-titled set was received curiously; like everything Verlaine had done to this point, it suffered from living under the shadow of the band’s… Read More →

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Samantha Morton – My Life In Music

The actor, director and now singer on her essential aural companions: “When you’re lonely, music becomes your friend” BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE BOB MARLEY Advertisement Exodus ISLAND, 1977 My father, my real Dad, was into music in a big way. We had a huge wooden sideboard in the front room with a few records in, that we were not allowed to touch! I remember him playing Bob Marley over and over again, and this particular album was one of his favourites, so by default it was the soundtrack to playing out on the streets where I lived. Nottingham was a very multicultural place, so it was common to hear reggae on stereos. As a child, I didn’t really understand the lyrics, so I wouldn’t have realised that these were political songs – songs of freedom, if you like. But if anything, the lyrics are even more relevant today. And it’s just incredible music, so thanks Dad! Advertisement THE BEATLES Abbey Road APPLE, 1969 The next one, again, I have to thank my father for. He’d had the Beatles records since he was a kid and they were his everything…. Read More →

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Introducing the new Uncut: Springsteen, The Police, Low’s Alan Sparhawk, Sturgill Simpson and more

Change – very much in the headlines here in the UK at the moment – is something of a recurring theme in this month’s issue of Uncut. We have Alan Sparhawk reflecting on his first new music since the death of Mimi Parker, his wife and creative partner in Low; Sturgill Simpson expressing his desire to move forward creatively from one project to the next; Beachwood Sparks on the way that change can sometimes only be achieved through an incremental refinement of familiar processes and shared histories. HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME For our cover star, change came at a cost. Released 40 years ago in June, Born In The USA catapulted Bruce Springsteen into arenas – but the album was also among his most deeply misunderstood, from the title track down to the other, increasingly anxious laments for disappearing youth, misinterpreted by his new fans as good-time floor-fillers, primed for MTV. You’ll hear about the different shades of the album – its politics, Springsteen’s songwriting, his characters and more – from admirers including Kurt Vile, Lucinda Williams and Tom Morello. Advertisement There’s more, of course! The Police recording their best-selling album just in time to fall… Read More →

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Uncut – September 2024

HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME Bruce Springsteen, The Police, Sturgill Simpson, Alan Sparhawk, Beachwood Sparks, Lowell George, Adrian Borland and The Sound, Buzzcocks, X, Mavis Staples, Manic Street Preachers, The Jesus Lizard, Laurie Anderson, Dawn Landes, The Specials, Bob Dylan, Mark Lanegan, Brian Eno and more all feature in Uncut‘s September 2024 issue, in UK shops from July 19 or available to buy online now. All print copies come with a free, 15-track new music CD featuring MJ Lendeman, Nathan Bowles Trio, Spiral Galaxies, Mercury Rev, Moon Diagrams, El Khat, Nick Lowe, Harlem Gospel Travelers, Amy Rigby, Krononaut and more! Advertisement INSIDE THIS MONTH’S UNCUT: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: BORN IN THE USA may be BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN’s most successful album – but it is also his most misunderstood. As this landmark record turns 40, we investigate how The E Street Band spun stadium rock gold from Springsteen’s unflinching studies of alienation, self-doubt and the American dream gone sour. Meanwhile, long-term admirers KURT VILE, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, TOM MORELLO and ADAM GRANDUCIEL celebrate an album of relatable characters, surprisingly raw performances and “total Boss music”. THE POLICE: At the peak of their success, THE POLICE went into battle… with themselves. But… Read More →

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Slowdive and Ride to play Sonic Cathedral’s 20th birthday

Shoegaze institution Sonic Cathedral will mark its 20th birthday this autumn with a series of four special gigs in London. THE NEW UNCUT COMES WITH A FREE, ULTRA-COLLECTABLE JOHN LENNON CD – ORDER A COPY HERE Slowdive will play one of their final Everything Is Alive shows at EartH in Dalston on October 4, supported by dream-pop disciples Whitelands and Deary. Meanwhile, Ride will recreate their triumphant set from the 1992 Reading festival at Hackney Church on October 12, supported by Bdrmm, Pye Corner Audio and Moon Diagrams. The 20th birthday celebrations kick-off with a show by A Place To Bury Strangers, Three Quarter Skies and Mildred Maude at Hackney’s Number 90 on September 24. There is also a special edition of Sonic Cathedral’s regular Sunday Service events at The Social on October 13, with very special guests to be revealed on the night. Tickets for all shows go on sale on at 10am on Friday (July 19) from here.

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Bob Dylan announces UK and European dates

Bob Dylan returns to the UK and Europe later this year, including three nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall in November. THE NEW UNCUT COMES WITH A FREE, ULTRA-COLLECTABLE JOHN LENNON CD – ORDER A COPY HERE The shows have been announced on Dylan’s website; tickets go on sale July 19. They include Dylan’s first UK shows since the Rough And Rowdy Ways tour in 2022. Advertisement Read our reviews from the Rough And Rowdy Ways tour here: Bob Dylan, The London Palladium, October 20, 2022 Bob Dylan, SEC Armadillo, Glasgow, October 30 & 31, 2022 Advertisement Bob Dylan, New Theatre, Oxford, November 4, 2022 Dylan’s currently on tour in the States as part of the Outlaw Festival. Meanwhile, Dylan’s 1974 tour with The Band is celebrated in an enormous 27-CD boxset, including 417 previously unreleased performances, which will be released by Columbia Records / Legacy Recordings on September 20. The new batch of dates are… OCTOBER 4 2024: Prague, Czech Republic, O2 universum OCTOBER 5 2024: Prague, Czech Republic, O2 universum OCTOBER 6 2024: Prague, Czech Republic, O2 universum OCTOBER 8 2024: Erfurt, Germany, Messehalle OCTOBER 10 2024: Berlin, Germany, Uber Eats Music Hall OCTOBER 11 2024: Berlin, Germany, Uber Eats Music… Read More →

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Stevie Nicks – BST Hyde Park, London, July 12

Things were different the last time Stevie Nicks played Hyde Park. That was in 2017, when she opened for her best friend Tom Petty and joined him during his headline set for a run through “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around”, the hit the Heartbreakers wrote for her in 1981. Petty is no longer with us, and nor is Christine McVie, Nicks’ soulmate in Fleetwood Mac, who’d become a fixture in that band again after years in the wilderness. “Whenever I’ve been hurt in my life, I’ve always run to the stage – and it’s always helped me,” says a visibly moved Nicks at the end of tonight’s set, before gesturing to the crowd: “You’ve always helped me.” THE NEW UNCUT COMES WITH A FREE, ULTRA-COLLECTABLE JOHN LENNON CD – ORDER A COPY HERE Advertisement The stage is all Nicks has known for the past 50 years – and this sell-out Friday at British Summer Time is all about her. Her corner of Hyde Park is a sea of tasselled jackets, lace dresses, Stetsons and cowboy boots. A Nicks performance, or one by Fleetwood Mac, has been a rite of passage for millennials in the 21st century, and such occasions are… Read More →

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Varun Sheel Releases “More than Friends”

Varun Sheel recently unveiled his latest single, “More than Friends,” which brings a fresh perspective to the indie pop genre. The song engages listeners with its strong storyline, offering a unique auditory journey. The chorus of “More than Friends” is particularly memorable, exploring the intricate dynamics of human connections in a way that resonates with a wide audience. Varun’s ability to integrate story into his music not only enhances the listening experience but also creates a deep connection with his audience. His new single is available on major streaming platforms, and fans can keep up with Varun’s latest projects and performances by following his social media. His innovative approach to indie pop distinguishes him as a notable artist in the ever-evolving music scene. Varun challenges traditional musical norms not only through his melodic innovations but also through the themes he explores. His music tackles personal and universal themes alike, appealing to diverse listeners. This approach not only enriches the listener’s experience but also broadens his appeal, making his music impactful and accessible to many. As Varun continues to build his musical legacy with each new release, his commitment to blending various musical styles and traditions underscores his role as a… Read More →

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Eiko Ishibashi – Evil Does Not Exist

Watch Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s new film, and you’ll see the countryside that Eiko Ishibashi and her partner Jim O’Rourke call home: the snow-capped extinct volcanoes, the dense forests and grassy meadows, frozen lakes and icy mountain streams. Yet it’s not by chance that the setting of Evil Does Not Exist matches the area west of Tokyo where the composer lives – in fact, the film is deeply interlinked with Ishibashi’s work and life, the visuals and the music both serving as inspirations to each other. THE NEW UNCUT COMES WITH A FREE, ULTRA-COLLECTABLE JOHN LENNON CD – ORDER A COPY HERE After Hamaguchi heard Ishibashi’s 2018 LP The Dream My Bones Dream, the pair began working together on 2021’s Drive My Car. It picked up an Oscar for Best International Feature Film, and Ishibashi’s jazzy, verdant soundtrack – at once accessible and experimental – was a big part of its success. When she then asked Hamaguchi to create visuals she could perform to onstage, he came to the area where she and O’Rourke live and began to film, initially inspired by a handful of electronic instrumentals she had created. The director enjoyed what he’d filmed so much, though, that he turned… Read More →